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SpamAssassin is a mature, widely-deployed open source project that serves as a mail filter to identify spam, also known as unsolicited commercial email (UCE). SpamAssassin uses a variety of mechanisms including header and text analysis, Bayesian filtering, DNS blocklists, and collaborative filtering databases.

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  *New Release:* On Wednesday, 2004-09-22, [SpamAssassin] 3.0.0 was released: \[http://issues.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=users@spamassassin.apache.org&msgNo=16202 Release Announcement\], \[http://issues.apache.org/eyebrowse/ReadMsg?listName=users@spamassassin.apache.org&msgNo=16203 Release Notes and Information\], [UpgradeTo300] notes

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  *Conference:* There will be three [SpamAssassin]Spam{{`Assassin sessions at \[http://www.apachecon.com/ ApacheCon 2004\] in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on 13-17 November 2004. There will be one 3-hour tutorial and two 1-hour talks on [SpamAssassin]Spam}}`Assassin.

Learning about SpamAssassin:

• Setting up SpamAssassin...
  • UsingSpamAssassin: Ways to use SpamAssassin, tools etc.
  • UsedViaProcmail: Using Procmail with SpamAssassin
  • Make use of other anti-spam projects: DnsBlocklists (using DNSBLs), UsingDcc, UsingRazor, and UsingPyzor.
  • FrequentlyAskedQuestions: General questions, not errors (see FixingErrors for that)
  • FixingErrors: Things that can go wrong and how to fix them
• Losing emails?

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    [FalsePositives]: \["Ham"\] being matched incorrectly as \["Spam"\]

  • AutoWhitelist: The SpamAssassin AWL
• Spam getting through?
  • BayesInSpamAssassin: Training the Bayesian learner
  • WritingRules: How to write and test new rules
  • CustomRulesets: Third party "drop-in" addon rulesets
  • CustomPlugins: Third party "drop-in" plugins for SpamAssassin 3.0 and later
• Learn more:
  • BooksAboutSpamAssassin: Published books that discuss SpamAssassin.

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    \[http://spamassassin.org/ The Website\]: All the static stuff \\

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• WeLoveVolunteers: areas where you can help improve SpamAssassin
• ThirdPartySoftware for SpamAssassin
• DevelopmentStuff: Stuff of interest to developers and those interested in the development process
• Help edit our CollaborativeManual (our Wiki).